We celebrated the new year with good friends and good wine. Washington wine of course. The evening began with a bottle of Pacific Rim White Flower Sparkling Riesling ( reviewed here ). The next wine we enjoyed, was the Heaven's Cave Cellars 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon . Heaven's Cave Cellars is a for-benefit winery that chooses to donate a portion of its profits from wine sales to cover 100% of the operating expenses of the Make the DASH Count Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit dedicated to both developing the next generation of community leaders and benefiting at-risk youth. The Foundation uses hands-on grantmaking to introduce high-school students to the joys and challenges of philanthropy. By serving on community-based youth boards, students learn about the fiscal literacy, community awareness and thoughtful decision-making necessary to act as stewards of the foundation's grantmaking process, annually awarding grant monies to prog...
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